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Thursday, April 19, 2012

More for Christmas

I have some more Christmas cards that I thought I'd share today. These cards are for this week's Merry Monday challenge. Here's the sketch that Lesley gave us...

This is the first card I did.

I kept trying different panels and couldn't be satisfied so I decided to use the Stripe Embossing Folder instead. I couldn't get a good picture of them, but hopefully you can see the stripes.

The stamp is a bargain from a local craft store. I stamped it 3 times in Always Artichoke. The white gel pen added some snow to the branches.

The sky is sponged with Bashful Blue and Not Quite Navy and the birds are from the Up, Up and Away set. In this picture the snow looks gray. It's quite shimmery IRL, painted with Frost White Shimmer paint. It's mounted on Naturals White which has a snowy look.

I wasn't sure if this would be too far from the sketch so I did another and spent far too much time on it and created an awful mess of glitter and Dazzling Diamonds. LOL! I'll sparkle for months!

This is true to the sketch. I just hope all that sparkle is still on the card at Christmas. To achieve that sparkly effect, I patted the whole design area with VersaMark and sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds. I had seen a similar technique by Cristina of the My Paper Secret blog. She has a wonderful clean and simple style that is never boring. I love visiting her blog for inspiration.

I found out that VersaMark is not exactly a glue pad. Think I need to visit a craft store again and get a real glue pad so the glitter will stay put better!

I punched some little snowflakes from each panel with an old EK Success punch. Then I changed my mind and decided to put the snowflakes back but with dimensionals. I used the Northern Frost Sizzlit Decorative Strip for the larger snowflakes and cut them from Shimmery White and Night of Navy. The Navy helps to show the snowflake up better.

Now I don't know which one to enter. I love the simplicity of the first one, but the second is closer to the sketch. Decisions decisions.

18 comments:

Oh Bonnie, I think you should add them both! I love the first one with the embossed stripes and the scene that you painted with those pretty trees and gorgeous bow! The second one is oh so sparkly but beautiful too! I love how you made the main image sparkle and the added snowflakes! Navy & white make such pretty Christmas cards! Thanks for playing along this week over at Merry Mondays!

Both cards are beautiful! I do love the second one. If you use Iridescent Ice embossing powder by SU, along with the versamark, you'll get a wonderful Dazzling Diamonds effect. The glitter will probably fall off the versamark by itself. (Someone might have already commented on this in a previous comment, I didn't read them all!) Anyway, I think the first one is very serene and I love the snowy effect on the trees, too! Thanks for participating in the Merry Monday challenge with us this week!

WOW WOW WOW! These cards are incredible beautiful! The serenity of the first is amazing and the wonderful Christmas sparkle of the second is fabulous. I have no patience whatsoever for glitter but you really make me want to try to achieve that result!

Well, if I ever get to Cary, NC and see someone sparkling in the distance, I'll know it's you! I've added glitter by mixing it with a small amount of clear embossing powder, just enough to sprinkle on the Versamark piece.

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